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Trump: next couple of weeks will be horrific

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

US President Donald Trump has said the next couple of weeks will be horrific as coronavirus continues to spread. And in India, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has continued to rise; one has appeared in Mumbai鈥檚 biggest slum, Dharavi and it's feared that infections will rise quickly. British American Tobacco is working on a plant-based coronavirus vaccine. We hear from Kingsley Wheaton who's on the company's board. Wimbledon has been cancelled because of the Covid-19 outbreak, the first time the tournament has been called off since the Second World War; we get analysis from former British number one, Annabelle Croft. With toilet paper in short supply in many parts of the world, we hear how there are echoes today of a toilet paper shortage in Hawaii in the early 1970s. And we talk to Izzy Saralis-Wheatly, one of four zookeepers at Paradise Park in Cornwall in south west England who have decided to live with the parrots and other animals they look after until the coronavirus emergency is over. Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Bloomberg's Mumbai bureau chief, Jeanette Rodrigues and in Toronto, Ralph Silva from Silva Research Network. (Picture of Donald Trump by Win McNamee for Getty Images).

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  • Thu 2 Apr 2020 00:06GMT

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